Robert Rowland Smith and I took our philosophy slam to the Camden Comedy Club, where the audience, supercharged by the wonderful Pippa Evans, threw out words and ideas for us to riff on. Click here to listen to what happened…

A Sunday Sermon for The Idler. I voted Remain. I believe Leave is a mistake. But the UK is now in a new place. The ground has shifted. Or has it? There are steadier links that haven’t changed. They are…

In this new series of podcasts, Abigail Peters and I have a third discussion, this time about what is meant by the systemic view. We discuss concepts such as what it means not to be an individual but part of…

This piece was published by Newsweek. It’s odd that we think of nostalgia as a feeling to indulge. We play an old record, listen to a favorite sketch, relive a scene from a film – things that many might be…

A Sunday Sermon from The Idler. Money is making the news – or to be more specific, off-shore money that supposedly affords the über-rich a glamorous life that most of us can only dream of. But it’s odd, the minute…

A Sunday Sermon for Easter Day… Is life a tragedy or a comedy? The ancient question is worth revisiting when Easter falls early and Spring is still striving to establish herself; when the happiness of a prospective holiday is tinged…

This review is published in the new issue, and the last, of Third Way… Desire has always been a problem in the church, perhaps the main problem. And yet, implies Sarah Coakley, this should come as no surprise. Christianity is,…

This comment piece is in this week’s Church Times. A debate between Boris Johnson and Mary Beard, on the virtues of Greece and Rome, recently drew an audience of thousands. Greek philosophy and classical history routinely secure primetime slots on…